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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this demand for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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